What you receive when you place a tile depends on its attributes, its placement in relation to its surrounding tiles and its interaction with other tiles in both your own and your opponents’ boroughs. Money can be spent on new properties (tiles) for your suburb which provide you with boosts to your income or reputation, or just immediate injections of money or people. In Suburbia players compete to have the most populous suburb, walking a tightrope between income and reputation (the amount of money and the number of people who move to your suburb at the end of each of your turns). And then I just shrug and buy another heavy factory. Sometimes I wonder if Suburbia is a Rorschach test, revealing my base desires for the material over the social. And then give me a lake to put next to it to contaminate for profit. Give me a landfill site over affordable housing any day of the week. I just want everything to be hexagonal yellow, spewing out money and repulsing people like there’s no tomorrow. Suburban StartĬhrist, but I love industry. These are scattered snippets of Suburbia. At one point it mentions a urinating sot. It’s also an article about failure, corruption and Christmas spirit. This is an article about the board game Suburbia, its expansions, app and sequels. “Sooner or later, all games become serious.” J.G.
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